Mark Crosby FSA
Associate Professor / Graduate Faculty
D. Phil. 2008, Oxford
Email: crosbym@ksu.edu
Office: English/Counseling Services Bldg. 222
Fields of interest:
British Romanticism, 18th Century British, 19th Century British, Digital Humanities, Film, Narrative, and Poetry.
Mark’s main area of research is Romantic-period literary and visual culture. His most recent research led to the discovery of William Blake’s earliest engraved art and the reconstruction of the hanging arrangement of Blake’s 18 portraits of poets.
Mark has edited an edition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence (Bodleian 2024), and co-authored, with Robert N. Essick, the first critical edition of William Blake’s Genesis Manuscript (2012). Mark also co-edited Re-envisioning Blake (Palgrave 2012) and William Blake’s Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests (Palgrave 2024).
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In addition to publishing essays on Blake and his circle in various journals, including Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, University of Toronto Quarterly, British Art Journal, and book chapters in Resisting Napoleon (Ashgate 2006), Blake and Conflict, (Palgrave 2008), Queer Blake (Palgrave 2010), Blake in Our Time (University of Toronto, 2010), Blake 2.0 (Palgrave 2012), Blake, Gender, and Culture (Pickering and Chatto 2012), Blake and the Age of Aquarius (Princeton 2017), Beastly Blake (Palgrave 2018), and William Blake in Context (CUP 2019), Mark has published essays on William Godwin and Thomas Paine in Review of English Studies, Nineteenth-Century Prose, and William Hayley in the Bodleian Library Record.
Mark is particularly interested in how authors and artists negotiated the various economies of patronage operating during the long eighteenth-century. He is currently writing a monograph on Blake’s experiences of patronage and co-editing a volume of essays on one of Blake’s patrons, William Hayley.
Mark is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a contributor to BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (https://branchcollective.org), editorial advisor to Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Series and Poetry Criticism Series Gale/Cengage), and is an associate editor for the William Blake Archive, the largest and most comprehensive free to access digital repository of Blake’s works on the web: www.blakearchive.org
Mark’s research on William Blake has featured on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme and in print media, including Reuters, The Times, The Smithsonian Magazine, and The Art Newspaper.